{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-appeals-family-visitor-no-2-regulations-2000/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-appeals-family-visitor-no-2-regulations-2000/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2446",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) (No. 2) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-appeals-family-visitor-no-2-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;\n“entry clearance officer” means a person responsible for the grant or refusal of entry clearance;\n“fee” means the fee required to be paid in accordance with regulation 3(1);\n“first cousin” means, in relation to a person, the son or daughter of his uncle or aunt;\n“repayment” means any repayment required to be made in accordance with regulation 3(3).\n(2) For the purposes of section 60(10) of the Act, a “family visitor” is a person who applies for entry clearance to enter the United Kingdom as a visitor, in order to visit—\n(a) his spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or first cousin;\n(b) the father, mother, brother or sister of his spouse;\n(c) the spouse of his son or daughter;\n(d) his stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother or stepsister; or\n(e) a person with whom he lived as a member of an unmarried couple for at least two of the three years before the day on which his application for entry clearance was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev (transtl savings)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1147",
      "affecting_title": "The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2446/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:25:42.681415+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}